From: VicGar007@at-gmail.dot.com   
      
   On 11/19/13 05:37, JJ wrote:   
   > On Tue, 19 Nov 2013 01:24:59 -0500, Vic RR Garcia wrote:   
   >> If there is NOT support/update/patches available for XP ...   
   >> Why are you going to care about activation ???   
   >>   
   >> Put away your tin-foil hat, M$ is not as 'evil' as Apple,   
   >> and anyway there are still MILLIONS of computers running XP in   
   >> Corporate enterprises, and they will be running for a few more years.   
   >> Plenty of Win98 machines too, running old DOS programs and is   
   >> unsupported from M$ since 2006, not expiration, not kill-bomb.   
   >   
   > Because I still need Windows XP.   
   >   
   > Re/activation and updates/hotfixes are not the same thing.   
   > Corporates mostly use volume license (VL), so the installations don't   
   > require activation.   
   > Us consumers, don't use VL for our PCs/Notebooks/Netbooks.   
   > Non VL Windows will be crippled if not activated after 30 days.   
   >   
   > There are times where we need to move OS to a larger hard drive, or because   
   > the old one is showing signs of worn out. Windows use hardware fingerprint   
   > which also include the hard drive firmware serial number, to encode the   
   > installation ID. If the fingerprint changed, the current ID will no longer   
   > valid, and the installation will need to be reactivated, or it'll eventually   
   > cripple itself.   
   >   
   > How would Apple be more evil than Microsoft? I'm not a Mac user, so I don't   
   > know.   
      
   Oh, you means to install a new/used copy of XP on different hardware,   
   not a problem as long as you have a valid license.   
   The validation server will still run, or you can activate it by calling M$.   
      
   Apple control everything on their machines, hardware and software wise,   
   it's 'their' way, not yours.   
   As an example of 'evil' iPhone users that modified their phone to use it   
   on another provider got a surprise when they update to a newer IOS,   
   there is a kill-bomb in the new IOS that bricked their phones rendering   
   them as a piece of unusable junk, that's 'Apple evil'.   
   M$ has never done something like that.   
      
   Google 'iPhone bricked' for details.   
      
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